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2 days ago · The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the " Fifties " or the " '50s ") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. Throughout the decade, the world continued its recovery from World War II, aided by the post-World War II economic expansion.
Apr 12, 2024 · Reviewer: Sam Kennerley. University of Cambridge. Citation: Sam Kennerley, review of Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650, (review no. 2109) DOI: 10.14296/RiH/2014/2109. Date accessed: 12 April, 2024. Carlos Eire’s Reformations aims to provide a readership of ‘beginners and nonspecialists’ (p. xii) with an introduction to ...
4 days ago · October 8. Hiki Yoshikazu, Japanese warrior and nobleman. Minamoto no Ichiman, Japanese nobleman (b. 1198) November 4 – Dirk VII, Dutch nobleman and knight. November 30 – Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi, Arab scholar and jurist (b. 1146) [32] unknown dates.
In the early 1450s, “he was commissioned by King Afonso V of Portugal to create a map of the world.” Portugal’s will to dominate world trade, which required the most detailed maps possible, was matched by Fra Mauro’s will to gather information about every corner of Earth, no matter how far-flung.
Mar 22, 2024 · This is a selection of art journals in UBC Library holdings related to Early Modern art: Renaissance Quarterly Online coverage: 1967-Present. Also available in print at the Music, Art & Architecture Library (ASRSO) at: CB3 .R36 (1948-2006). I Tatti Studies: essays in the Renaissance Online coverage: 1985-Present.
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Apr 5, 2024 · Friesland, coastal provincie (province), northern Netherlands. Occupying the western portion of the historic region of Frisia, the province extends inland from the IJsselmeer and the North Sea (west and north) and includes four of the West Frisian Islands off the north coast. Leeuwarden, the capital, is in the north-central part of the province.
Mar 27, 2024 · His movable type printing press, invented in secret in the 1440s and 1450s, overturned the media world and changed the course of history. Born in Mainz, Germany sometime between 1394 and 1404, Johannes Gutenberg was the son of an exiled patrician who worked as a merchant. While little recorded history exists on Gutenberg’s early life, we know ...
